Danielle Lloyd has hit back at critics who accused her of staging the reveal of her baby's gender live on Loose Women.

During yesterday's episode, the glamour model received a baby scan and was handed a blue balloon by Nadia Sawalha to announce that she'll be having another boy when she and partner Michael O'Neil welcome their first child later this year.

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"I'm so happy! I'm going to be overrun with boys!" she said, a reference to the fact she already has three sons with ex-husband Jamie O'Hara.

"I'm excited now! At least I know and can prepare for another messy boy in the house!" she added.

However, since the show aired, the star has taken to Twitter to slam the "immaturity and jealousy" of those criticising her for finding out the baby's gender in that way.

It's very sad when girls are so obsessed with trying to bring me down it shows immaturity and jealously.. the obsession with me is unhealthy

Nicola had accused Danielle of knowing the sex of the baby before Loose Women after former TOWIE star Maria Fowler linked to a since-deleted tweet from pregnancy clinic Miracle Progress, which reportedly announced that the baby was a boy before the ITV show aired, according to Mail Online.

Ah so it's true you did the gender scan for her before the loose women one... I didn't think she looked surprised 😂🙊 https://t.co/pT8BYliPXy

Danielle and Nicola have been publicly feuding since Nicola starred alongside Danielle's ex Jamie in Celebrity Big Brother earlier this year and Danielle hit out at Nicola for claiming that she was at the couple's wedding in 2012.

"Nicola McLean was not at my wedding just to confirm. And if Nicola turned up in the night she was definitely a wedding crasher," she wrote on Twitter only seconds after the claim was made in the episode on Channel 5.

Nicola then responded to Danielle's accusation in sarcastic style. "I'd need to lie about that, my life is that dull that I'd genuinely lie about being at a wedding," she explained. "Honestly, what a load of f**king tripe."